New Friday Feature Posts and a Watercolor Card

I have decided to do a Friday Feature post from now on, and to start...the first five weeks of Fridays are going to be easy but effective watercolor cards.

After the watercolor cards, there are many other features coming up such as product features (where I create several cards from one stamp set), my favorite card artists features (where I CASe two cards from my favorite card artists), a watercolor pencil comparison, and so on!

I am so excited to get started, so here is the first in the easy but effective watercolor cards feature:

I am totally smitten with watercolors, and even though I've been an acrylic painter for years, trying watercolors has me anxious lol.  So I've started with some super easy techniques for card makers, and hopefully one day I will be far more capable lol.

I created this card by first embossing the sentiment from Lawn Fawn "Scripty Sayings" stamp set with champagne embossing powder from Recollections (from Michael's).  Then I created the background with my Kuretake watercolors.  Its really hard to see in the picture but there is some pearl added in there with the aqua colors/  The ribbon is Swiss Dots from Crafty Ribbons.

Super simple, but effective, plus it gives me a chance to just play!

Come back next Friday for watercolor card #2, where I get to play with a brand new watercolor medium :)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Buttons!

Hello everyone, I have some fun inspiration for you today, for the Crafty Ribbons Challenge this week.  The theme is buttons, and I have created two cute tea bag holder thank yous for you.

I created these after watching video on Youtube by My Sister's Scrapper and they are so much fun to make and also make a great gift :)

To create these Teabag holders I used some awesome ribbon from Crafty Ribbons:

Swiss Dots, Animal Cuties-Ladybirds, and Vintage Butterflies.

Some lovely ribbon to add to a lovely thank you gift.

You can find these ribbons and more in the Crafty Ribbons online shop.  Stop by and join in for the challenge this month, and don't forget to add a button!

It's an Easter Blog Hop! with Crafty Ribbons :)

Hello everyone!  Welcome to day 3 of Crafty Ribbons' Easter Parade Blog Hop!  The theme for this hop is Easter Bonnets!  There are some wonderful creations along this hop, and to be eligible for the prize, you must be able to tell us where you found the eggs :) Aaaand , of course, you must leave a comment on all of the blogs in the hop.  Think you can manage?  Yay!

Here is my creation for this fun hop:

I created this fun little card using a cute Easter image from Drawn with Character and some beautiful ribbon from Crafty Ribbons!  I used the Patchwork Rose - Dream Wish Believe ribbon, along with some Swiss Dots White/Candyfloss ribbon to top off this little cutie, and it was a perfect match!  The sentiment is from Joyclair Stamps Easter Eggs stamp set, and I colored this little cutie with my Copic markers.  Copics are not my usual medium by themselves, but I am proud of how this turned out.  A lot more practice and I'll be great lol.

OK, so...here's the hop list for you:  and the rules lol

To take part in our EASTER PARADE

you will need to visit our DT members' blogs and leave a comment on the DT creations which they have made for the parade  

There is also an egg sitting on a few of the girls blogs which you will need to take note of and then link up on that days post. and tell us on whose blog you found the egg.

if you take part every day and linkup  with the correct name  on each day you have extra chances of winning in the random draw from all three days.

if you only want to join in one day thats fine too!!

Day 1:

MARIANNE

LAURA

CAROLE

CAROL

Day 2:

KATE 

LA VIKINGA 

KELLY

LYNSEY

Day 3:

LEAH *you are here* hahaha of course, lol

but, don't forget to leave a comment on all of the blogs in the hop (it's been running for three days), so you need to look at all of these fun creations :)

MARG

CHRISTELLE

CAROL

now back to CRAFTY RIBBONS  to add your link